I've been printing to PDF for decades now, and nothing comes close to the ease of use and versatility of 2 decades worth of interesting web pages .. I have pretty much every interesting article, including many from HN, from decades of this habit.

Need to find all articles relating to 'widget'?

    $ ls -l ~/PDFArchive/ | grep -i widget

This has proven so valuable, time and again .. there is a great joy in not having to maintain bookmarks, and in being able to copy the whole directory content to other machines for processing/reference .. and then there's the whole pdf->text situation, which has its thorns truly (some website content is buried in masses of ad-noise), but also has huge advantage - there's a lot of data to be mined from 50,000 PDF files ..

Therefore, I'd quite like to know, what does monolith have to offer over this method? I can imagine that its useful to have all the scripting content packaged up and bundled into a single .html file - but does it still work/run? (This can be either a pro or a con in my opinion..)